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No Forced Labour For Disabled!

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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) plans to make disabled people work for no pay for charities, corporations and other firms, said Disabled...
Teachers joined junior doctors on a mass march through central London last month – teachers are out on strike today

Teachers strike today – worst funding cuts since 1970s

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‘SCHOOLS are facing the worst cuts in funding since the 1970s,’ the NUT warned as teachers at every school in the country walked out...
UAL students are in indefinite occupation opposing the Elephant & Castle gentrification

University Of Arts London Occupied!

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STUDENTS at University of Arts London (UAL) are in indefinite occupation of London College of Communications (LCC) in Southwark to oppose Elephant & Castle...

Abbas calls for immediate end to Israeli occupation of Palestine

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to what he described as Israeli occupation and aggression in Gaza, the West Bank,...
UAW members demonstrating on February 16 outside the Flint East Delphi plant demanding no wage cuts

From New Labour Spin To Union Busting

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GMB trade union members demonstrated yesterday against the union-busting propaganda for Asda Wal-Mart being supplied by public relations company Portland PR, which was set...

Large scale assault on northern West Bank

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ISRAELI occupation forces (IOF) continued a large-scale assault on the Tubas governorate in the northern West Bank for the third consecutive day on Friday,...
PCS members demonstrate outside the High Court during their appeal to defend their conditions

PCS gearing up for massive jobs fight

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Civil servants union, the PCS, is gearing up for action to fight over 300,000 public sector job cuts, planned by the Tories. PCS NEC...

ICC MUST HOLD THE ISRAELI LEADERS AND SOLDIERS ACCOUNTABLE! says Human Rights Monitor

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A NEW report documenting several violations of international humanitarian law committed by Israel during its recent military attack on the Gaza Strip from 10-21...

Tax Hikes & Cuts Come In

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TODAY, April 1, the first day of the new financial year, a barrage of vicious cuts and hikes come in attacking the living standards...
Campaigners fighting to stop the closure of Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals at a lobby of the council last Wednesday

Halt NHS Privatisation By Stealth!

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THE Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has written to health minister Lord Howe expressing grave concern that the government is planning to privatise large...
PCS picket line outside Baltic House in Norwich yesterday. PCS secretary for Norfolk and Suffolk, Dave Seagrave (lefy)

Jobcentre Strike Solid

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JOBCENTRE staff who deal with calls from people entitled to benefits and crisis loans went on strike yesterday over oppressive working conditions and unrealistic...
Thousands of Unison members took part in the TUC March 26 demonstration to show that they were determined to stop the privatisation of the NHS

NATIONAL DEMO! – called by Unison to defend NHS

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The Unison national delegate conference in Manchester yesterday voted to step up the fight to save the NHS and to call a national demonstration. Delegates...

‘Don’t lecture us about wage restraint’ – ‘the alarm bells are ringing!’ says Unite’s...

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‘Don’t lecture us about pay restraint,’ the Unite and GMB unions retorted to appeals from Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey yesterday,...

RUN ON NORTHERN CONTINUES! – double digit inflation on the way says Greenspan

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YESTERDAY morning frantic savers once again laid siege to Northern Rock bank branches, determined to withdraw their savings, following the scenes over the weekend,...

SACK G4S demands Howard League

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THREE G4S employees were arrested yesterday and are being held on suspicion of child neglect following an investigation into abuse at a young offenders...
Ambulance staff taking strike action at Deptford Ambulance Station were concerned at the way cuts were affecting the service

Ambulance Cuts Are Costing Lives!

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EAST of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST) management operated a policy of downgrading target response times for 999 emergency calls from December 18th...

PM Johnson’s 5-point ‘Living with Covid’ plan

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TORY PM Boris Johnson set out his five point plan for ‘Living with Covid’ yesterday saying that he expects the lifting of restrictions will...

Police tasering mentally ill!

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TWO-THIRDS of all people Tasered by the police in England and Wales between 2010 and 2014 were identified as mentally ill. The figures were made...

Hamas to launch legal action against Tories! –After UK Parliament designates Hamas a ‘terrorist...

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THE PALESTINIAN organisation that governs Gaza, Hamas, announced on Sunday that it will take legal action against the United Kingdom, which recently listed it...

100 Tories rebel over ‘Plan B’

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JOHNSON’S ‘Plan B’ measures to attempt to slow the advance of the new Omicron strain of coronavirus only passed in Parliament yesterday with the...

Sarkozy Threatens Teachers With Anti-Union Laws

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President Sarkozy threw down the gauntlet to the teaching unions immediately after the hugely successful national strike and demonstrations on Thursday. He shocked union...
Firefighters on the picket line at Lambeth Fire Station at the beginning of the year

FBU – 4 Days Strike Action

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THE FBU is escalating its strike action tonight with four days of action in England beginning at 6pm in the sharpening fight over pensions. The...
An optimistic and enthusiatic picket line at Chase Farm Hospital yesterday morning

‘we Have To Keep Chase Farm Open’

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‘WE are having a good response to our picket today,’ North-East London Council of Action Secretary Bill Rogers told News Line at Chase...

Iran drives US and Israel back!

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Iran’s top security body says the powerful Iranian military response as part of True Promise III forced the Israeli regime to halt its aggression unilaterally. The...
Confident GMB Medirest strikers on the second day of their seven-day strike at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning

Week-long Ealing Medirest strike going strong!

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THERE was a strong picket of 80 striking GMB domestic workers, porters and caterers at Ealing Hospital yesterday morning. The workers were in their fourth...

Eurozone In Recession!

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The economy of the 15-nations eurozone has slumped into recession for the first time ever, EU data released yesterday revealed, with GDP falling 0.2%...

‘Last Ditch Talks’ Over NHS Pay

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Health unions yesterday warned the government that if it fails to improve on its pay-cutting offer they will proceed with strike ballots. UNISON said: ‘New...

CONFIDENCE IS EVAPORATING! – say the CBI bosses

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THE UK economy is ‘in a bad place, with confidence evaporating’, the head of the UK’s biggest employers’ organisation has warned. John Cridland, director general...
Sacked Gate Gourmet workers rallying in Southall in December 2005 with the support of the local community. They are still fighting for their rights

Gate Gourmet Loses BA Short-Haul Contract

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Northern Foods has won the British Airways contract to supply meals and sandwiches for short-haul flights from Heathrow airport, replacing Gate Gourmet. Northern, the food...
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Deptford Ambulance Station striking over pay – there is a massive lack of ambulance staff, creating an enormous crisis

AMBULANCE CRISIS: Patients are dying!

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AN AMBULANCE staff shortage has reached such a critical point, GPs warn, that very young and elderly patients are dying before getting to hospital. This...

Oil $146 A Barrel – Gm Is Going Broke

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The price of oil continued to soar yesterday, with Brent crude rising above $146 per barrel (p.b.) for the first time ever. Brent crude...

NATIONALISE BRITISH STEEL says Unite trade union

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THE UNITE trade union yesterday urged ministers to take British Steel into public control if a deal cannot be struck between owners Greybull, its...

UCU Fights Mass Sackings

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The University and College Union (UCU) has slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost £200,000, while...

No to ‘Son of a Dog’ Trump’s deal – Abbas

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas has firmly rejected President Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ the details of which were announced yesterday evening. Abbas said: ‘Trump...
Protest for safe and warm council homes – the housing crisis has reach new heights with families squeezed into too few homes

Record-breaking overcrowding – in both council & privately rented homes

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UP TO THREE children are being crammed into single rooms in council homes, with families packed into flats like sardines, new figures confirm, with...

US ‘heinous act of aggression’

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US FIGHTER planes attacked a Syrian Army post on Sunday evening, killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13 others in what has been condemned...

UK still set in law to leave EU on March 29

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INDICATIVE votes will take place today, Tory Leader of the House of Commons, Andrea Leadsom confirmed yesterday afternoon, after which the Withdrawal Bill amendment...
The Gate Gourmet locked-out workers campaign team in Southall High Street yesterday

Gate Gourmet Workers Rally

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Gate Gourmet locked out workers are campaigning every day up until their first anniversary march and rally in Southall this Sunday, 20th...

‘No Medals, Badges Or Claps Just Pay Nurses 12.5% Rise!’

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‘NO MEDALS, badges or claps this time – just pay nursing fairly’, a nursing union leader told Boris Johnson yesterday. The leader of the UK’s...
Young Socialists marching to the TUC Congress earlier this month demanding Jobs for Youth and a general strike to get the Tories out

ON THE ROAD TO RUIN! – 4.5m self employed and ‘insidious’ zero-hours contracts

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UK registered unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, official figures show. The figures do not...
The NUT picket line at Ellis Guilford school in Nottingham yesterday – teachers are opposed to a 5-term year

Notts NUT strike action

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Nottingham teachers held a second successful one-day strike yesterday against the City Council’s plan to impose a five-term year. Speaking ahead of yesterday’s strike, John...

Infection out of control – ‘Isolation exemptions will spread Covid-19’ – BMA stark warning!

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STAFF isolation exemptions are absolutely the wrong answer to the government’s failure to control spiralling infection rates, says doctors’ union the BMA. Responding to news...

Unite ‘to fight’ Ford closures

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THE Unite union yesterday vowed to fight the closures of Ford plants in Southampton and Dagenham. The notice of mass sackings came as prime...
Convenors, shop stewards and Unite officials at Parliament Square awaiting the arrival of the nine-car ‘drive-by’ yesterday

‘NATIONALISATION IS NOT APPROPRIATE’ – for GM plants says national officer Osborne

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NINE Vauxhall cars and vans from the 1960s to the present day came to London yesterday for a ‘drive-by’ of parliament ‘to showcase the...

Halt Zionist settlers’ heinous crimes in Palestine says PM Shtayyeh

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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday denounced the ‘heinous crimes’ committed on Sunday by Zionist settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara...